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ISBN:
9780760381816
Inhalt:
" Create your own one-of-a-kind kicks with painting, drawing, stenciling, and marbleizing techniques from celebrated sneaker customizer Xavier Kickz (aka Xavier Crews). In Art of Custom Sneakers , Xavier shares his innovative ideas and techniques for prepping, designing, and finishing custom sneakers for everyone . The book begins with the basics8212 including tools and materials, workspace setup, prep, finishing, and design planning8212 then moves on to dozens of incredible customizing projects . Whatever your level of artistic experience, Xavier's in-depth, step-by-step instructions ensure your success as you start making your own custom kicks. Twenty-eight QR codes to supplemental video instruction offer additional step-by-step guidance. As you go, gather inspiration from amazing custom sneakers throughout history . Start with any clean sneaker 8212 whether leather Nike Air Force 1s, or canvas Vans or Converse, or bargain shoes similar to any of these8212 then add your own personal touches with techniques such as:Cartoon StylePaint Pen CamoSharpie Tie-DyeHydro-Dipped MarbleizingGalactic SplatterBedazzled FlashStop admiring custom sneakers from afar, and start making your own!"
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Biographisches: "By day, Xavier Kickz (aka Xavier Crews) is a software engineer. By night, he customizes kicks and films fun tutorial YouTube videos for his thousands of followers. Xavier has been customizing shoes for more than 10 years and has recorded more than 120 videos. A graduate of Virginia State University, Xavier often gives back to his community by giving away his customized shoes, basketballs, iPads, and more. His goal in creating his videos for beginners is to teach creative techniques so viewers can build their skills and enjoy making things by hand. He lives, works, and inspires from his home in Raleigh, NC." Rezension(2): " Publisher's Weekly : July 3, 2023 Kickz (aka Xavier Crews) adapts his sneaker customization YouTube tutorials to the page in his vibrant debut. He outlines how to prepare shoes for reworking, which requires removing the laces, rubbing the factory finish off with acetone, and taping over parts that shouldn’t be painted. Detailing a variety of methods for transforming the look of leather and canvas shoes, he notes that readers can “draw” with paint pens and shows how to use them to make a tricolor camo design or a Pac-Man–inspired maze on black high tops. He also walks through how to add acrylic paint tiger stripes and create a “cartoon” effect by applying white and black lines “near the stitching in different areas of the shoe.” The creative designs wow, especially the “cut paper collage” made by gluing on cutout comic book panels, as well as the marbled effect achieved by dipping shoes in a mixture of leather dye and shaving cream. However, the use of illustrations in lieu of photographs makes it hard to envision what some of the finished products will look like off the page, and several projects require significant artistic ability, such as the “dragon kicks” featuring a freehand drawing of a pink dragon spanning the length of each shoe. Still, sneakerheads will get a kick out of this." Rezension(3): "Library Journal: Starred review from October 1, 2023 YouTube influencer/software engineer/sneaker customizer Kickz has put his inspiration, recommendations, and guidelines in a book so that readers who want to follow in his footsteps can create one-of-a-kind shoes too. In the 1980s, custom-designed sneakers were commercially produced for star basketball players, and this became a popular trend. Initially, these fashionable shoes were designed by artists, which meant high-dollar limited editions. Now hand-painted shoes are the craze that fuels the industry. Kickz's book provides its instructions in graphic-novel style illustrations and comic drawings. He encourages readers by telling them that they don't have to be an artist or student of the craft to create a pair of sneakers or two (or several),all one needs is the desire and willingness to learn and to practice different techniques. Kickz also includes a Q&A section that contains his YouTube channel's most frequently asked questions. VERDICT A sure hit. For aspiring custom shoe designers. --Laura EllisCopyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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